The Lotus Sūtra 1.23

1.23

「次復有佛亦名日月燈明，次復有佛亦名日月燈明，如是二萬佛，皆同一字，號日月燈明，又同一姓，姓頗羅墮。彌勒當知，初佛後佛，皆同一字，名日月燈明，十號具足。所可說法，初中後善。其最後佛，未出家時有八王子：一名有意，二名善意，三名無量意，四名寶意，五名增意，六名除疑意，七名嚮意，八名法意。是八王子，威德自在，各領四天下。是諸王子，聞父出家，得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提，悉捨王位亦隨出家，發大乘意，常修梵行，皆為法師，已於千萬佛所、殖諸善本。

Manjuśri replies that he believes the Buddha is now about to make his final revelation, “to preach the Great Law, to pour the rain of the Great Law, to blow the conch of the Great Law, to beat the drum of the Great Law, to expound the meaning of the Great Law”. He says that whenever in the past such a Buddha-ray has been emitted it has always preceded the declaration of the Wonderful Law to all creatures. He says he has seen this before, under a Buddha named Light-of-the-Sun-and-Moon, and under twenty thousand successive Buddhas of the same name. The last of these, before leaving home to become Buddha, had eight royal sons, whose names and story he gives; they all became Buddhas. Before the Buddha Sun-moon-light withdrew to Nirvana, he first entered into the trance-like meditation on the meaning of Infinity, whereupon flowers fell from heaven and the whole universe was shaken. On awaking from his trance he preached, through his disciple Mystic-light, “The Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, by which bodhisattvas are instructed”, and which is under the special guardianship of the Buddhas themselves. Manjuśri thereupon reveals to the assembly that it was he himself who was Mystic-light in a previous incarnation. This is told, in both prose and verse, with a wealth of detail and in splendour of language.